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By Brooke Crothers and Stephen Shankland
November 13, 1998
C/Net
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Transmeta, the highly secretive,
well-funded Silicon Valley chip start-up may be offering
the first glimpses of its well-guarded microprocessor
design. The company recently received a patent for
certain portions of the chip design and in the process
may be revealing a broader picture of what the chip does.
In short, it is a novel design which appears to be
extremely fast and can potentially run all Windows
software.
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By Mike Magee
November 13, 1998
The Register
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At The Register we now believe that we
have written wholly unjustifiable stories about large
chip company Intel. Far from it being a raving,
paranoid Satan that does what it likes to innocent
companies, countries and individuals, we now believe that
it is actually a caring, sharing community of fair minded
people which has the best interests of the whole world
community at heart.
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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
November 12, 1998
NewsBytes
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A Microsoft Corp. lawyer repeatedly
questioned the credibility of an Intel Corp. executive
during a tense cross-examination at the Microsoft
antitrust trial this morning, accusing him of concocting
some of his most colorful testimony and of harboring a
grudge against the software giant. Steven McGeady, an
Intel vice president, had testified earlier this week
that Microsoft had threatened to withhold crucial
technical support from Intel if the chipmaker did not
stop developing software that would compete with
Microsoft's products. McGeady, called to testify by the
government, also said that an executive at Microsoft told
him of plans to "extinguish" one of the
company's fiercest rivals, Netscape Communications Corp.
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By James Niccolai
November 12, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Intel has been alerted to a glitch in
some of its desktop motherboards that has left some
recent PC buyers unable to boot up their machines, a
company spokesman has confirmed. The problem affects
Intel's SE 440BX-2 motherboards, which are designed for
use with Pentium II-based desktop PC systems, Intel
spokesman Robert Manetta said.
Only boards manufactured during the month of October
were affected by the problem, and the issue only arises
when the motherboards are used in conjunction with a
certain type of power supply, Manetta said.
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By Jack Robertson
November 13, 1998
Electronic Buyer's News
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s new Fab 30
here has started processing its first full K7
microprocessor test wafers to qualify the production
line. First silicon is expected to be completed by Jan.
23, 1999. Jack Saltich, AMD vice president and general
manager of the Dresden operation, said initial K7
production will start here by the end of next year. Some
K7 processors will be launched next year also at AMD's
Austin, Texas, fab, which will also continue to make the
existing K6 series. Saltich said Fab 30--the most
advanced ever built by AMD--will only make the new K7
MPU. The German fab will initially use 0.22-micron
processes, which are understood, to launch mass
production--but then quickly move to 0.18-micron
design-rule processing.
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By Reuters
November 13, 1998
C/Net
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Advanced Micro Devices chief executive
Jerry Sanders yesterday forecast rising sales during the
next three years as the chipmaker brings out more
products to compete against rival Intel. Speaking at a
meeting with financial analysts at Advanced Micro
Devices' headquarters, Sanders said revenue in 1999 could
be $3.7 billion, rising to
$4.4 billion in 2000, and $5.8 billion the following
year.
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By John G. Spooner
November 12, 1998
PC Week Online
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A groundswell of activity will surround
Rambus Inc.'s high-speed RDRAM at next week's Comdex. While
the technology has been in development for several years,
Rambus and partners such as Kingston Technology Co. will
report at the Las Vegas show that Rambus dynamic RAM
memory modules will be in volume production in the first
half of next year. PC OEMs are expected to ship their
first desktops supporting RDRAM, thanks to an Intel Corp.
chip set, code-named Camino, in the second half of next
year.
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 13, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Intel Corp. vice president Steven
McGeady ended his time on the witness stand Thursday
defending his objectivity in the landmark Microsoft
antitrust trial. As McGeady wrapped up his testimony,
U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson went to the
heart of one of Microsoft's key criticisms about McGeady
-- that he was resentful of Microsoft and was not
representative of Intel's views regarding Microsoft.
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By Lisa M. Bowman
November 12, 1998
ZD Net News
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Microsoft Corp. attorney Steven Holley
went all out to dent the credibility of government
witness Steve McGeady Thursday morning, portraying the
Intel executive as a disgruntled employee and "prima
donna" who blamed Microsoft for being shipped off to
MIT after his project was killed. With the landmark
antitrust trial reconvening after a one-day recess, the
proceedings heated up. At one stage, Judge Thomas
Penfield Jackson stepped in and asked Holley whether he
was seeking just to embarrass McGeady.
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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
November 13, 1998
Newsbytes
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The Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ:MSFT]
antitrust trial turned into a tense sparring match over
the credibility of a witness from Intel Corp.
[NASDAQ:INTC] yesterday, with a lawyer for Microsoft
accusing the executive of concocting some of his most
colorful testimony, and the government producing several
documents to support the witness's claims. On the
witness stand was Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president
called by the government. He testified earlier this week
that Microsoft had threatened to withhold crucial
technical support from Intel if the chipmaker did not
stop developing software that would compete with
Microsoft's products. He also made the dramatic
allegation that a senior executive at Microsoft told him
of an intent to "extinguish" rival Netscape
Communications Corp. [NASDAQ:NSCP] and to "cut off
Netscape's air supply."
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 12, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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A Microsoft Corp. attorney continued to
pick away at a key government witness Thursday, claiming
the witness harbored ill feelings toward Microsoft and
had ties to Microsoft rival Netscape Communications Corp. Continuing
his cross-examination of Intel Corp. Vice President
Steven McGeady, Microsoft attorney Steven Holley tried to
rebut each of McGeady's claims against Microsoft and to
establish that McGeady sought revenge against Microsoft
for sidetracking his career.
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By Patrick Thibodeau and Elizabeth Wasserman
November 12, 1998
Infoworld
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Microsoft on Thursday lashed backed at
Intel Vice President Steven McGeady, painting him as a
prima donna and disgruntled employee who saw Microsoft as
"Satan" and leaked stories to the press. Essentially,
Microsoft did all it could Thursday morning to discredit
a witness that in earlier testimony had charged the
company with making a "credible and fairly
terrifying" threat against it.
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By John Lettice
November 12, 1998
The Register
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Intel VP Steve McGeady came under
sustained attack from Microsoft attorney Steve Holley
today, who claimed he embellished his notes from a key
1995 meeting with Microsoft, that he'd made up the
critical 'cut off Netscape's air supply' quote from Paul
Maritz, and that his superiors regarded him as a prima
donna. McGeady held up well, pointing out that the
Maritz quote was highly memorable, and that although it
didn't appear in his notes of the meeting, these did
include Microsoft claims that it would "kill
HTML," and "keep the browser a commodity."
He might also have mentioned, if he'd had the chance, the
curious longevity of the "cut off their air
supply" quote. This reached the press well in
advance of the trial, and Microsoft has had ample
opportunity to deny it. Until today, it had not done so.
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By Dan Goodin
November 12, 1998
C/Net
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Microsoft today portrayed a senior Intel
executive as a disgruntled "prima donna" who
fabricated allegations as part of a vendetta. But despite
the sometimes dramatic cross-examination, Microsoft was
unable to rebuff the executive's most damaging
claim--that the software giant sought to use its
dominance to suffocate competitors. Microsoft attorney
Steven Holley introduced evidence that contradicted key
claims made earlier by Intel senior vice president Steve
McGeady, the government's fourth witness in the ongoing
antitrust trial here.
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By Graham Lea
November 13, 1998
The Register
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Relationships within the Wintel alliance
have been much more hostile than had previously been
realised, it emerged during the third day of Intel VP
Steve McGeady's evidence. The most acrimonious
cross-examination so far took place yesterday when
Microsoft attorney Steve Holley of Sullivan &
Cromwell tried to give McGeady a rough time in the
witness box. At one point, Judge Jackson intervened and
admonished Holley about one of his lines of questioning:
"What is the point of this? What are you trying to
demonstrate? Are you just trying to embarrass him?"
The judge also wanted to know if McGeady was in the court
"with the blessing of your CEO".
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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
November 11, 1998
Newsbytes
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Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ:MSFT] turned on
its close ally of almost two decades, Intel Corp.
[NASDAQ:INTC], in a Washington courtroom yesterday,
suggesting that the company has used its clout in the
computer-chip market to strong-arm customers and withhold
technology from rivals that it wants to
"punish." The allegations, delivered in a
tense cross-examination of Intel Vice President Steven
McGeady at the Microsoft antitrust trial, were intended
to neutralize his testimony on Monday that Microsoft
bullied Intel into dropping development of computer
software that would compete with Microsoft's products.
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By Marc Ferranti
November 12, 1998
InfoWorld Electric
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Microsoft Thursday is expected to try to
poke holes in the testimony of perhaps the most damaging
witness so far in the U.S. government's antitrust trial
-- Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president. McGeady is
returning to the witness stand after telling how
Microsoft pressured Intel to drop, among other
development efforts, native signal processing (NSP)
technology designed to improve PC multimedia
capabilities.
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By Graham Lea
November 11, 1998
The Register
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"[Bill Gates] was very upset we
were making software of any sort... He became quite
enraged." So said Steven McGeady, the Intel VP who
led the development of Intel NSP software (to make a
computer "dance and sing"), as he continued to
give testimony to DoJ trial attorney David Boies. McGeady
said that Gates had "made it very clear that
Microsoft would not support our next processor
offering" unless Intel realigned its software
development to meet Microsoft's requirements. Microsoft
viewed Intel as a competitor, he said. It was
"Microsoft's desire we clear and essentially get
approval for our software programs before proceeding with
them", McGeady testified.
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By Stephen Shankland
November 11, 1998
C/Net
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Intel released further details of its
new way to connect devices to server computers at an
industry forum today in San Diego, but it may find it's
at odds with other computer makers. The architecture
has been going by the code name of NGIO (next generation
input/output) and is the sequel to the PCI bus, the main
data path in a PC that lets computer users plug network
cards, disk drives, and other devices into the computer.
The PCI architecture is in virtually every
Intel-compatible personal computer shipping today and has
been for about five years.
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By Amber Howle
November 12, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Resellers should expect to see systems
containing Direct Rambus memory by the middle of next
year. In the past two weeks, a few memory vendors have
said they have made progress on their Direct Rambus
efforts. Some have started in-house testing, while at
least one is already shipping samples to PC OEMs.
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 11, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Microsoft Corp. battled back Tuesday
against claims the software giant bullied partner Intel
Corp. into staying out of the software market, even
turning the accusation around on Intel and claiming the
chip maker itself has bullied competitors. Mark Murray,
a spokesman for the Redmond, Wash.-based software
company, said Microsoft's attorney, Steven Holley, had
been effective in establishing that the government's
witness, Steven McGeady, an Intel vice president, had
distorted facts in the case.
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Microsoft
Lawyer Grills Intel Witness
Microsoft begins cross-examining the
Intel executive who says the company pressured Intel to
drop multimedia technology.
By Patrick Thibodeau
November 11, 1998
PC World
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Microsoft began its cross-examination
Tuesday of the Intel executive who has accused the
software giant of pressuring it to drop a technology that
would have improved the PC's multimedia capabilities. Steven
McGeady, an Intel vice president, has testified that the
company abandoned its work on native signal processing
software after Microsoft pressured equipment
manufacturers not to adopt it. McGeady has claimed that
the technology would have improved the speed and
reliability of multimedia applications.
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By Will Rodger and Lisa M. Bowman
November 11, 1998
ZD Net News
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Microsoft is having trouble rattling the
Intel witness it promised in the beginning to discredit. At
yesterday afternoon's proceedings in the landmark
antitrust trial, Microsoft attorney Steven Holley tried
to get Intel vice president Steve McGeady to admit that
his company dropped a multimedia project because it
wouldn't work with Windows 95, but McGeady wouldn't bite.
McGeady testified earlier that Intel killed the
so-called Native Signal Processing (NSP) project under
pressure from Microsoft. Under cross-examination he said
Microsoft badmouthed the project to computer makers.
"This was the beginning of the end [for NSP],"
he said.
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By Will Rodger
November 11, 1998
Inter@ctive Week
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Microsoft Corp. succeeded not once but
twice in killing multimedia software efforts at Intel
Corp., a steadfast Intel Vice President Steve McGeady
testified Tuesday in the software giant's continuing
antitrust trial. In nearly 3 hours of often rapid-fire
exchanges with Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) attorney Steven
Holley, McGeady reasserted his claim that it was
Microsoft's pressure, not technical incompatibilities,
that killed a multimedia technology known as Native
Signal Processing. Microsoft lawyers, in turn, tried to
show that Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) produced an inferior
product.
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 10, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Attorneys from both sides of the
antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. Tuesday continued
to explore the relationship between the software giant
and Intel Corp., its largest partner. Intel vice
president Steven McGeady asserted again that Microsoft
tried to control or contravene Intel software efforts and
make sure the chip maker did not work with Sun
Microsystems Inc., Palo Alto, Calif., on Java.
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By Dan Goodin
November 10, 1998
C/Net
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Microsoft today tried to cast doubt on
the testimony of a senior Intel executive, but by day's
end had failed to get the government witness to budge
from claims that the software giant pressured his company
to stay out of the software business. Under today's
cross-examination, Intel vice president Steve McGeady
reiterated testimony he made yesterday that Microsoft in
1995 threatened to withhold support for forthcoming Intel
chips if it developed software that Microsoft viewed as a
threat. McGeady's testimony came as Microsoft attorney
Steven Holley introduced evidence today that he said
contradicted McGeady's claims.
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By Lisa M.Bowman
November 10, 1998
ZD Net News
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Microsoft Corp. attorneys appeared to be
salivating over the prospects of tearing into Intel Corp.
executive Steve McGeady, who continued his powerful
testimony here against the software giant Tuesday morning
during the Department of Justice's landmark antitrust
trial. But DOJ objections stopped Microsoft attorneys
from showing a videotape of McGeady's boss, Ron Whittier,
that may have undermined McGeady's testimony.
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By John Lettice
November 11, 1998
The Register
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Showing less than his usual prescience,
the author of The Road Ahead seems to have mislaid his
maps back in mid-1995. At a meeting with Intel executives
that July, Bill Gates is claimed to have said: "This
antitrust thing will blow over," and added that the
battle with the DoJ so far meant that "we may change
our email retention policies." Judging by the
blizzard of emails the DoJ is using against it,
Microsoft's policy on email retention does not seem to
have changed, although in the Caldera case there have
been some allegation of destruction of evidence. But if
Bill really said this, the inescapable conclusion must be
that he was thinking about torching internal
communications which the DoJ might use against him later.
The matter of email retention would certainly have had
some piquancy in the context - Intel bosses Andy Grove
and Dave House had previously been right-royally skewered
by juicy Intel emails subpoenaed by AMD.
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By John Lettice
November 10, 1998
The Register
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In video testimony yesterday Bill Gates
claimed Microsoft didn't like Intel's NSP technology
because of the poor quality of Intel's software (see
earlier story). "We thought the quality of their
work was very low as well as not working with any of our
new Windows work," he said. "We may have
suggested at some point that the net contribution of
their software activities could even be viewed as a
negative." The records however show that
Microsoft has relied heavily on this low-quality software
from Intel. At the time of the Windows 98 launch in June,
Intel issued a modest list of 15 key technologies it had
made a major contribution to in the product. Microsoft,
happily, carries a list of new features in Windows 98 on
its Web site, so for the edification of our readers, we
compare and contrast below:
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By Reuters
November 10, 1998
C/Net
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Intel expects $2.5 billion in revenues
from online sales for the fourth quarter, compared with
nil a year ago, Paul Otellini, head of the architecture
business group for the world's largest computer
chipmaker, said today. The $2.5 billion would exceed
the company's own internal goal of $1 billion, Otellini
told Reuters in an interview.
Intel has an effort in place to boost its business
with computer vendors via the Internet, said an Intel
spokesman. The $2.5 billion in revenue refers to the
amount of processors, motherboards, and other equipment
that partners will buy from Intel during the quarter. A
substantial portion of this equipment formerly was
purchased by phone or other means.
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By Guy Boulton
November 10, 1998
The Salt Lake Tribune
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Euro RSCG DSW Partners -- the Salt Lake
City advertising agency that created Intel Corp.'s
``dancing disco bunnies'' -- will no longer handle the
company's consumer advertising. The change led DSW to
eliminate 23 jobs in its Salt Lake and San Francisco
offices. It also means the loss of an account that
produced the agency's most high-profile work.
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 9, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Microsoft strong-armed not only
competitors, but also Intel, its biggest ally, according
to testimony Monday in the Microsoft antitrust case. Intel
vice president Steven McGeady, appearing under subpoena,
said Microsoft chairman Bill Gates got very upset at
Intel's software investment, "became enraged"
over work Intel engineers did in the company's Internet
Architecture Laboratory, and even asked Intel chairman
Andy Grove to shut the lab, according to an Aug. 2, 1995,
memo from McGeady.
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By Darryl K. Taft
November 10, 1998
Computer Reseller News
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Despite potentially damaging testimony
Monday by a an Intel Corp. executive charging Microsoft
Corp. with anti-competitive practices, a Microsoft
spokesman told trial watchers to stay tuned, as
Microsoft's attorneys hope to discredit the witness'
testimony. Mark Murray, a spokesman for Microsoft, said
that Intel vice president Steven McGeady, who testified
Monday that Microsoft threatened to withhold support for
Intel microprocessors if the chip maker continued its
software efforts, is contradicted by the sworn testimony
of other ranking Intel executives.
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Denies Pressuring Intel
Microsoft chair describes Intel's software
products
as "low quality" and incompatible with Windows.
By Elizabeth Wasserman
November 9, 1998
PC World
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates denied taking
steps to dissuade Intel from developing Internet
software, but he did describe the chipmaker's software
products as being of "low quality" and
"incompatible" with Windows during his
video-taped deposition in preparation for Microsoft's
antitrust trial. In a 15-minute segment of the
videotape played in U.S. District Court on Monday, Gates
steadfastly rejected government claims that Microsoft
attempted to press Intel to stick to hardware and stay
away from the software trade. He also denied--in a series
of simple "no" answers accompanied by long
pauses and his characteristic rocking--that his company
sought to keep Intel from aiding Microsoft's rivals, Sun
Microsystems and Netscape Communications.
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By John Lettice
November 10, 1998
The Register
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Threats? What threats? Bill Gates'
claims that Microsoft was just trying to discourage Intel
from wasting its money on NSP (see Intel writes lousy
software, says Gates) took on an increasingly hollow ring
as emails from the Great Man himself clearly indicated
something entirely different -- if this was not pressure,
then it becomes exceedingly difficult to explain. It
is agreed by all parties that Microsoft did not want
Intel to pursue NSP, a software technology Intel wished
to add to its CPUs -- the dispute is over why Microsoft
didn't want NSP, and what steps it took to stop it.
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Information Week
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An attorney for the U.S. Department of
Justice Monday spent time building up a potential
showdown between the twin towers of the PC business. Monday
morning, Justice Department attorney David Boies played
more of the videotaped testimony from Microsoft Corp.
Chairman Bill Gates during which the attorney grilled
Gates on his and Microsoft's relationship with
microprocessor king Intel Corp.
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By John Lettice
November 9, 1998
The Register
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Here's a puzzle. One of the long term
Wintel buddies, Andy Grove of Intel, says Microsoft
strongarmed him over Native Signal Processing and he
caved. Another one, Bill Gates, says he never threatened
Intel, and what's more Intel software stinks. Those of
us who got the beta of Windows 1.0 will understand that
Bill's something of an expert on low quality software, so
we'll take notice of his video testimony this morning,
which was deftly inserted by the DoJ prior to the Intel
verbal testimony. Said Bill of Intel's programming:
"We thought the quality of their work was very low
as well as not working with any of our new Windows
work... We may have suggested at some point that the net
contribution of their software activities could even be
viewed as a negative."
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By Lisa M. Bowman
November 10, 1998
ZD Net UK
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Intel executives appeared to wring their
hands over the Java debate back when the language first
gained momentum, threatening to unseat Microsoft's
dominance in the operating system market. Internal
emails and memos, released during yesterday's proceedings
in the Microsoft antitrust trial, paint a picture of
Intel executives worrying about whether they should
support the growing Java platform -- even as Microsoft
urged them not to.
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By Tony Smith
November 10, 1998
The Register
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Intel has withdrawn its consumer
advertising business from Salt Lake City, Utah-based Euro
RSCG DSW Partners, the company that devised the abyssmal
'dancing bunnies' ads and popularised the 'Intel Inside'
slogan. Responsibility for promoting the Great Satan
of chips to the great unwashed will now go to New York
agency Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer/Euro
RSCG. DSW will continue handling Intel's Internet and
business-to-business advertising.
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By Dan Goodin
November 9, 1998
C/Net
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Microsoft made "credible and fairly
terrifying" threats against Intel, trying to bully
it into killing certain research projects, a senior
executive from the chip giant testified today. Microsoft
was especially concerned about a technology known as NSP,
or native signal processing, as well as Internet software
Intel's research arm was developing, Steven McGeady, the
company's vice president for content, testified.
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By Elizabeth Wasserman
November 9, 1998
Infoworld
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Intel Vice President Steven D. McGeady
is expected to take the stand Monday and back up the
government's claim that Microsoft dissuaded Intel from
developing Internet software. McGeady, who manages the
Intel content group's software and Java development
efforts, is the first witness so far whose direct
testimony has not been released. In the three-week-old
government antitrust trial against Microsoft, direct
testimony from other witnesses -- including executives
from Netscape, America Online, and Apple -- has been
released to the public in the form of transcripts from
depositions.
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By Will Rodger
November 10, 1998
Inter@ctive Week
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An Intel Corp. executive testified
against his company's most important business partner
Thursday, accusing Microsoft Corp. of denying consumers a
host of new technologies through iron-fisted control of
its PC operating system monopoly. Steve McGeady, an
Intel vice president, said that in the long run,
Microsoft hopes to own the Internet. Its strategy: To
"embrace, extend and extinguish" the
competition by substituting the company's proprietary
software for the public-domain, open technologies that
have driven the Net's frenetic growth, he said.
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By Elizabeth Wasserman
November 9, 1998
Infoworld
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Microsoft made a "credible and
fairly terrifying" threat to dissuade Intel from
working on Internet-related and other software programs,
according to testimony Monday from Steven McGeady, a vice
president at the chip giant. His words were in
contradiction to videotaped deposition by Bill Gates Unlike
other witnesses called so far during the trial, McGeady's
direct testimony was not made public beforehand at the
request of Intel. But under questioning in the
government's antitrust trial against Microsoft today,
McGeady, who oversaw Intel's work on development of
Internet software and in the Java programming language,
backed up the government's claims that Microsoft used its
dominance in the operating system market to stop Intel
from working on certain software projects.
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By Rajiv Chandrasekaran
November 9, 1998
Newsbytes
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Microsoft Corp. [NASDAQ:MSFT] Chairman
Bill Gates made his second extended electronic appearance
in the antitrust trial of his company this morning,
denying in a videotaped deposition that he or Microsoft
threatened microchip giant Intel Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC] to
prevent it from competing with Microsoft. The Justice
Department's lead attorney said he intends to juxtapose
Gates's denials with internal Microsoft electronic mail
messages and the testimony of an Intel executive, who is
scheduled to take the witness stand this afternoon. The
attorney, David Boies, called the deposition segments
played in court "just the predicate for the
questions that will come this afternoon and the documents
that will be released."
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By Lisa M.Bowman
November 9, 1998
ZD Net News
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A testy, fidgety, yet surprisingly
candid Bill Gates was the highlight of Monday morning's
testimony here at the Microsoft Corp. antitrust trial. In
a taped deposition, Microsoft's chief executive roundly
bashed close ally Intel Corp.'s entry into the software
market. He told prosecutors that "Intel was wasting
its money writing low-quality software that created a
negative experience for users."
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Insanely Great
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Bill Gates ordered Intel during an
August 2, 1995 meeting to shut down its Intel
Architecture Labs division, some 750 engineers strong, or
face loss of Windows support for Intel chips, according
to Intel Vice President Scott McGeady. Gates reportedly
became livid when Intel demoed some of the Internet
technologies IAL had developed. "I think it was
clear to everyone in the room ... that if those
processors didn't run Windows they would be useless in
the marketplace," McGeady said. "So the threat
was both credible and fairly terrifying."
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By Mike Magee
November 9, 1998
The Register
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Sources close to Intel confirmed today
that the first iteration of its 370-pin slot will appear
at the very beginning of next year, as part of the chip
giant's two pronged attack on its competition. But
Intel is not -- as yet -- dropping its Slot One design
for the Celeron, the sources confirmed.
The first 370-pin device will appear in the first week
of January at a 366MHz clock speed and with the Mendocino
core and will be supported by a number of motherboard
vendors, including Gigabyte.
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By Mike Magee
November 9, 1998
The Register
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Our friends at Infoworld repeat some
speculation this weekend about a cut-down version of the
PII appearing next year. We're mighty glad and flattered
to have our friends over the pond read our stuff. But
here at The Register we have a slightly different take on
the now-famous Slit One technology, prompted by talking
to both a pesky OEM with a particular "in" at
Santa Clara and also a distributor, who will here remain
unnamed.
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By Rick Boyd-Merritt
November 7, 1998
EE Times
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In its struggle to catch up with
advances in microprocessors, the venerable PCI bus is
becoming a push-me/pull-you, shifting into high gear and
getting shunted aside all within one week. On Wednesday
(Nov. 11) Intel Corp. will unveil, here, full details of
its vision of what lies beyond the Peripheral Component
Interconnect, a technology it has generically dubbed
next-generation I/O (NGI/O), and ask the PC industry to
begin building products based on it. Meanwhile, the PCI
Special Interest Group was expected to make a key move on
Friday (Nov. 6) in its effort to ratify a life extension
of PCI, called PCI-X, stretching the capabilities of the
aging bus for several generations of new designs.
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